Pencil tree, native to much of southern Africa, is among the most ... pencil tree combines harmoniously with plants such as yucca, agave, snakeplant, crown of thorns and devil’s backbone.

Around 300 community members in the towns of Mognori and Yazori are engaged in the effort by planting the seedlings of two species, the Gum Arabic tree (Vachellia nilotica) and Paperback Thorn ...

Baobabs are also the longest-lived African trees; in 2011, a baobab that died in Zimbabwe at the age of 2,450 made it the oldest of all flowering plants to ... roses and their thorns alongside ...

As the problems mounted and the plants multiplied ... It’s a devil tree.” The P. juliflora mesquite was once presented as a solution to some of East Africa’s most pressing problems when ...

The Wistar Institute and the University of Buea in Cameroon has uncovered the mechanisms for a medicinal plant with anti-HIV ... a species of African tree that has been used in traditional healing ...

Since childhood, Loveness Bhitoni has collected fruit from the gigantic baobab trees surrounding her homestead ... an ethnobotanist specializing in African plants used for food and medicine.